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Re: Doom the movie. Has anyone noticed....

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From: EvilBill
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:11
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Inglo wrote:
> The scariest part of Doom 3 for me was fairly early when you walk into
> an office to get a pda and it's covered with blood and pentagrams and
> has candles burning, as soon as you pick up the pda, the cackling
> starts.  Up until that point I'd been playing D3 late at night with
> all the lights out.  What's I find interesting is that none of that
> stuff should really have an effect on me any more, I don't believe in
> any of it, yet it does.  On the other hand a game like F.E.A.R.,
> which was spooky enough, didn't come close to evoking the kind of
> response from me that Doom 3 did.

I know exactly what you mean. Doom 3 scares the shit out of me every time I
play it. Yet right from my very earliest childhood I was taught that there
was no such thing as hell, no fire and brimstone or eternal torment or *any*
of that stuff.
FEAR is creepy, but nowhere near as much as Doom 3.

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From: "EvilBill" <quake2lives@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Doom the movie.  Has anyone noticed....
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